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The 12-15 period is the one that is shameful as they had plenty of picks and drafted high at least one year.
It's look like the '12 draft was just a bad year to suck and have a top pick. 1 player from that draft has over 300 pts to date although Galchenyuk's next point he will hit the 300 mark as well. Only 5 players from that draft class have over 200 pts, Forsberg, Galchenyuk, Hertl, Rielly, TT, At the same time though they needed to do a better job then Galchenyuk, 39 pts from Hudon and trading Collberg for Vanek.
That '13 draft looks a good bit better as you have MacKinnon at over 400 pts, with Barkov and Monahan getting close and 9 players already over the 200 pt mark. So a better class then '12 but still not looking so hot. The Habs f***ed up and Timmins admitted such when they went for need in size. It was the first draft for Churla as well. McCarron, DLR, Crisp, 3 top 71 picks used to get bigger which was just stupid. Now the only hope left is that Leks finds a way to score more and that maybe one day McCarron can be as good as DLR who they just gave away for nothing cause they weren't smart enough to see putting Pleks on waivers a week sooner would mean they get to keep their 2nd round pick that they rushed to the NHL at 19 for some stupid reason.
'14 they had just 1 pick in the top 72 but while Scherbak was a risky pick that they either didn't do their homework on or misjudged him as he never seemed to be mature enough to take his career seriously but Lernout and Koberstein were more of the big body mistakes I'm guessing. I have liked Hawkey and Evans so we'll see if they ever do anything as late round picks but good gambles there.
'15 just 5 picks and just 1 in the top 85, f***ing brutal. After going high risk in Scherbak they went safe in Juulsen which i think he can be a decent bottom pairing D but missing on Aho stings and even the local kid Beauvillier would have been a decent pick up. Vejdemo is starting to show something as a possible bottom liner but still he turns 24 in Jan so we'll see if he can turn into anything or not.
Tkachuk was the BPA, at least for a lot of people.
I had Quinn Hughes over Tkachuk based off their NCAA play since that's the league I watch the most after the AHL. Hughes is lighting it up and with how good Timmins has been at picking blueliners I thought he might go that route although who knows what kind of pressure MB put on him to get him a center since he wasn't able to do it himself cause trades are hard.